| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Democratic peace and diversionary war -- Anarchy, states, and nations -- Social trust and its origins -- Overcoming particularism -- The social trust theory of international conflict -- Research design -- Results -- The outbreak of World War I -- Analysis and conclusions |
| Summary |
Social Trust, Anarchy, and International Conflict challenges the democratic peace and diversionary war theories by emphasizing the importance of social trust, its origin as a by-product of effective governance exercised by strong states, and influence on international conflict. The author argues that strong states socialize individuals into social environments where self-esteem is gained not through comparisons against out-groups, but rather cooperative role fulfillment with other individuals. This socialization, which contributes to the formation of generalized social trust (itself a basic and powerful heuristic) is then carried over into the state's interactions with international actors, contributing to their pacific behavior and even influencing the nature of international anarchy itself. As a result, democratic peace is not really peace between democracies but rather peace between strong, well-governed states, and diversionary war represents not an effort to improve regime popularity but rather state legitimacy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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War.
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War -- Causes.
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Trust -- Social aspects
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Politics and war.
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State, The.
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wars.
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armed conflicts.
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Peace studies & conflict resolution.
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International relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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Politics and Government.
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Politics and war
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State, The
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Trust -- Social aspects
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War
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War -- Causes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230118683 |
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0230118682 |
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